This translation provides a descriptive account of the court of Tsar Ivan IV, in sixteenth-century Moscow, as seen through the eyes of papal envoy and Jesuit Antonio Possevino S.J., who was sent to negotiate a peace between Muscovy and the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth.

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